DIVINE GRACE - Baba Protecting His Devotees from Razakars

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DIVINE GRACE – PROTECTING FROM ROBBERS

 

One Sheth Ratilal Chamanlal Shah of Ahmedabad carrying on business at

Adoni (Madras) left Adoni for Ahmedabad on the morning of 22-5-48 in

a second class compartment with his wife. He had with him ornaments

and cash worth about 10 to 12 thousands. There were in the same

compartment Shri. K. M. Munshi's Jagdish with his wife and also Shri

Gopalrao, the President of the Cotton Market committee and Shri Naidu

the Central Bank Agent. Till about 4 P.M. all these passengers passed

their time merrily in playing cards. An un-definable fear however

then suddenly seized Shri Ratilal and so he dissociated himself from

the rest of the passengers playing card and sat chanting Shri Sai's

name. These passengers tried to set at rest Ratilal's (what they

considered to be his) baseless fear, but he turned a deaf ear to all

of them, continuing taking Shri's name. But half an hour had hardly

passed and they sighted Gangapur Railway station, when they were

disillusioned; for then to their dismay they found a hand of Razakars

ready to pounce upon their train. As the train was just coming to a

half at Gangapur they seized the Railway Station Master, bound him to

a station pillar with a rope and started their ruthless campaign of

harassing, looting and killing passengers. Shri Ratilal's companions

also, finding no other way of escape from this attack, started

chanting Sai Baba's name, shutting fast their windows and doors; then

these passengers saw from doors crevices that a Pathan standing close

to their compartment was directing the Razakars to proceed either

left or right leaving them and their own compartment safe unrobbed

unscathed, They were all thus saved simply by chanting Shri's name.

The Razakars had not their attention drawn to this compartment

through Shri's grace. Need it be said that they then all heartily

thanked Baba for their miraculous escape from this danger?

 

 

 

DIVINE GRACE – BLESSINGS THROUGH DREAMS

 

 

At times Baba gave to his devotees dreams the veracity of which the

devotee could not doubt. Thus being pleased with the devotion of a

childless woman, Baba appeared in her dream, blessed her and banded

her a coconut saying, "Take this, eat it, and you will have a child".

On waking in the morning, she found the coconut on her bed and was

very pleased to eat it. As per Baba's words she had a son within 12

months thereafter. Another devotee Megha was in his bed one morning

half awake, half asleep, when he saw Baba throwing rice grains on him

and asking him to draw a Trident on the wall of his temple. He was

wondering as to how Baba could have entered his premises when all

doors were closed; but then his eyes caught the rice grains scattered

on his bed. This convinced him that Baba had actually come and

ordered him to draw the Trident in precedence of the Shanker he was

to receive from Baba the next day.

(Courtesy: Shri Sai The Superman)